Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Sunday, June 14, 2015

SS Super Sunday #1 : Open-Source Wars

Identify A to N.
Scoring : 3 points for each correct identification, 20 for getting all correct. Scoring will not be done on first-to-answer basis for Super Sunday.


Note: Do read the 'How to Play Section' on the Summer Slam page before attempting to answer the question.


A is an Indian electronics brand that is partly owned by B. A was founded in December 2014, and is a joint venture between B and the open-source community developer C. A, and by extension B, officially hold the rights for C's mobile platform D in India.


B's exclusive rights to distribute D-powered devices in India led them to file an injunction with the Delhi High Court which resulted in the temporary ban on E to sell their sole "flagship" device the F in India in the mid-to-late December of 2014. 


After the ban was lifted, E began work on their custom ROM G that would run on their subsequent batches of F, and their next-generation device, the H.


E was founded in December 2013 by former vice-president of I, J. E released their first device the F in the April 2014. The rights to sale of this device in India were given exclusively to the world e-commerce giant K.


Given the relatively small-size of E and their limited production capacity and marketing budget, the F promoted itself by campaigns encouraging people to smash their old phones on video, or the extremely short-lived "Ladies First" campaign.


F, however, was not the only device to be banned by the Delhi High Court at that time, as only some days prior, the sale of L-powered devices of M, originating from the same country as E, were similarly banned on grounds of patent infringements by the Swedish telecom giant N.




Monday, June 8, 2015

Friday, May 30, 2014

SS #5: The Crocodile Hunter Being Fashionable

Difficulty - 4/5

Series of questions each of which will lead to a part of the answer. When you answer them all, you shall get a certain personality in the world of Tech.

1.

You will find such things invented in only one country. Name the country. 
(X = Name of Country)

2. 

X has its fair share of talent in the world of fashion design. Name the designer.
(Y = Name of Designer)

3. Find the link between Charles Darwin and the Crocodile Hunter. (Z = Link)

4. Now combine Y and Z to get the name of a certain product which only Y supplied to a certain P. (Lateral Connect)

5. P is the final answer.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

DAILY TRIVIA # 514 The Three Q-BITyears

Remember, remember the 5th of November. Happy Birthday Q-BIT. This blog has now quenched the quriosities of the junta for 3 whooping years with an average of ~1 daily trivia every 2 days. So, here I have a fiver for the 5th of November.
You may click on the images to have a better view.

1. The movie Delhi Belly featured a song with the following lyrics:
   "Bhaag Bhaag D K Bose,D K Bose,....Aandhi Aayi Hai"
   Though it seemed like using a certain name in its lyrics, it turned into a profane word while singing.
   Which english term describes this condition where you misinterpret a phrase to a totally different
   meaning. Even this term came out of mishearing a particular phrase.

2. Connect.



3. Didn't know earlier that this behemoth corporation also made cars. Identify the logo.
   (The company I am referring to is a minority partner in this car venture).


4. Blame it on the internet, it does not have images of Nylon Nandini,Polyester Padmini and Cotton Kamini.It only has that of Silk Smitha. You get the connect :) So, here is an another connect ques. A tougher one though.



5. This Googler suggested the use of a particular symbol to be used for creating a group discussing something on twitter. What is that?

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Daily Trivia #507 Obituary Trivia

This one had to come right? RIP Steve Jobs! Cancer gets to the best of us but you fought it for so long and so well no one even knew.
Aditya Tyagi sent us this one and it requires a bit of googling.


Sunday, August 28, 2011

Daily Trivia #500 - C Ignoramus Quizzer

And like the previous post, this one is contributed by Prabhakar Kumar aka Ignoramus!
He still finds a lot of time from his job for quizzing which is fantastic. Infact, the 500th Daily Trivia poster was his idea!
Try his questions out too while we sing happy 500 to us!

1.  Hrithik,Abhay & Farhan had their version of this in ZNMD.Here, who are making the people run for their lives here?

2. Identify the person on the right.

 

3. This image was recreated in the building of this company which showed their fear of getting knocked out by the other giant. It also served as the codename for the project which they thought would help me counter the giant.Name this company and the project.



4.  When somebody told me that she would have been hot in her college days, I came up with this. Identify her. 












5. Which company started with this story?

6. Identify this game and the company which has started it.


7. This image features a cameo by which personality?


Monday, July 4, 2011

QFW 4 - Fashion Finale

This is the last post for QFW and it has been a great series of fashion quizzing. It made me realise there is quizzing in every category possible. Scoreboard looks all tied up at the moment. [If there are any scoring errors, please comment and tell us]. So, this post should serve as a cool tiebreaker with 100 points. No wonder than that some connects might seem a bit cryptic or on multiple levels too. We saw some new people giving answers on our questions and that's what this series was meant for. Great going. Now, to see who comes out on top, answer these:


1.  Connect. [30 points] Full description shall be most appreciated. :)






















2.  This dress needs the model to strip down to bare naked and was made famous by the supermodel Giselle Bundchen. To create the dress, the company used simulation and rendering softwares like Maya. Name the dress. [10 points]


3.  Two fashion houses lost similar battles against these 2 companies [logos given]. Id the two fashion houses and the reason. [10 points]

 


4.  Connect to a brand. [30 points]




5. Connect to a celebrity. [20 points]






After the 4 posts of QBIT Fashion Week, as per the points tally, gold goes to abhishek, silver to vendetta and bronze to DJ! Woohoo! And as always, well done to whoever answered!
For this post particularly, the answers I was looking for were:
1. Adidas:
Adidas bought Reebok, who's original logo was the Union Jack along with the text Reebok. The characteristic 3-stripes logo of Adidas was bought from a little known Finnish company called Karhu (which means bear in Finnish) for I think 1600 dollars and 2 bottles of whiskey. Adidas has a close relationship with the band Run DMC and it also produces a Starship Trooper among other versions of Star Wars special merchandise.

2. Water Dress

3. Louis Vuitton and Dolce & Gabbana for the domain names lv.com and dg.com

4. Brook Brothers. Quoting Aprajita here, "The Brooks brother Luxottica owns this brand. Barack Obama wore their brand's clothes on the inauguration day. In the movie up in the air George Clooney wore suits of this brand. And for the oscars the brooks brothers clothed the young stars of the movie slumdog millionaire."


5. Jennifer Aniston:
She has been the brand embassador of Loreal Elvive and started off with a permanent character in the TV Show Molly. Her haircut in early seasons of Friends got famous as the Rachel Haircut (Here shown Geri Willis sporting the look). Her fragrance is called Lolavie and she dated John Mayer.

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Friday, June 3, 2011

Daily Trivia #472 Million Dollar Baby


What does this map describe? Also name the location marked as "Final Destination"

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Daily Trivia #441 A bit more noise!

 Hope we all had a happy and safe holi!
Connect these locations...I know they are a bit unidentifiable ("It could be anything!"). But, the post title is itself a hint and, since I am very sweet, I'll give you another: Oregon

I believe some of these are tineye-able too.

Question Courtesy: Pranshumaan Singh






After I-dont-know-how-many days, no one cracked it. Miami Maiden took it to another level altogether.
Answer: List of Intel codenames

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Daily trivia #439





Connect......
hint: No need to tineye the faces. Juz extract the companies frm the pics n try to connect the key persons of those corps.
Okay giveaway: connect polo ralph lauren, virgin,oracle,dell,apple, Microsoft,Facebook

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